the western port city along the border or close to the border with saudi arabia, also around the capitol. those targets at radar sites, ballistic missile launch and storage sites, cruise missile launch and storage sites. drone launch and storage sites, those are intended as the coalition says as the united states says to send a message. but they are intended to degrade their ability to target shiping in the red sea. but already, the houthi are saying they are going to respond against u.s. and u.k. interest. it was u.k. typhoon fighter jets that targeted two different sites. it was the united states, missiles and fighter aircraft. who will say they will respond? u.s. interest in the region,
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hear quickly what next? what happens if the houthis make good on this threat and they do hit some of our interest, they do hit some of our people somewhere else? they do strike somewhere on the border? now what are you going to do? now we have to escalate up even higher. now we are taking what is a problem in the red sea and could be drawing us into a war which god only knows where that could go. we do not need a new war. laura: nathan, right on queue, giving the last question, politico just reported that the u.s. and the u.k. did have support from australia, the netherlands, bahrain, and canada in these strikes. but, again, no france and germany. we don t know the extent of their support, could be intelligence support, we obviously have the hardware and we should have the intel support but maybe we should stop spying on americans and focus more on the real threats. but, does that coalition give you some comfort, nathan? i think so. these are countries that have a lot of skin in th
u.k. strikes. one senior leader issued a statement saying quote we will confront america, make it kneel down and burn its battleships and everyone who cooperates with it no matter the cost. the houthi called on the world to prepare for america s defeat and not to abandon the people of gaza. we are following all of this live from abu dhabi. do you expect a longer more broad campaign against the houthis? reporter: well, kim, everybody we are hearing from, from the u.s. side including the u.s. president joe biden is saying that they wouldn t hesitate to carry out more if needs. and the expectation is that there will be some kind of retaliation from the houthi side. now what we have heard from one senior administration official is he said this may not be the last word on the topic and when we have more to say and do,
air strikes. in just a few minutes ago, the british junior armed forces minister said that no more u.k. missions in the area are immediately planned. the strikes were in retaliation for a recent wave of houthi attacks on commercial ships in the red sea. the u.s. air force reports hitting more than 60 targets at 16 locations. one senior u.s. official says it is significant. russia is calling for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council. across the united states, millions are under threat of severe weather today. and millions more can look forward to bone chilling cold, snow, even blizzard conditions. more than 240 daily cold temperature records could be tied or broken across the country through tuesday. courtesy of a massive storm system impacting the u.s. more than 50 million people in the southeast are under a severe storm threat today or tornadoes, high winds large